Improvement in whiffletrees



M. BoLANz,

WHIFLETREES. .f vNo.1'79,992. Patented July 1a, 137s.

wsTNvgs s l v v h TvoR l ATTORNEY JNrrED Smartsg PATENT .IMPROVEMENT IN WHIFFLETREES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179.992, dated July 18, 1876; application led June 3, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, MATHrAs BoLANz, of the county ot' Pittsylvania and State of Virginia, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Vhiftletrees; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe construction and operation ot' the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specilication, and to the letters and iigures ot' reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawingsis a representation ot a plan view ot' my improved whiftletree. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view ofthe same.

This invention has relation to improvement in whifflctrees for vehicles, farming implements, and the like; and it consists iu'the arrangement and novel construction ot' the metallic spreader or tree, its draft-hooks, and the rigid metallic rods which connect the said tree to the goose-neck ring, as will be hereinafter more fully explained.

In the annexed drawings, the letter A designates a metallic whiftletree, of the usual length, which is thickest at its middle part, and tapers therefrom outward to its ends, where it terminates in flattened eyes a.

B indicates metallic rods, which are connected at one end to a strong-,metallic ring, C, eyes b being formed thereon for the purpose. The remaining ends ot` these rods are provided with iiatteued eyes a', the object of which will hereinafter appear.

D represents the draft-hooks, to which the sin gie-trees of the leaders are attached. These hooks are made of metal, and have a dat shank b ofthe same dimensions as e es aa above mentioned. They are arranged between the rods B and the ends of the whifletree, in a recess formed therein by rabbeting the adjacent surfaces thereof, asshown in Fig. 2, thel hooks, the whiftletree, and the rods being then connected together by means of a short stout rivet, c, passing through eyes a a' and a perforation registering therewith in the shank of the hooks. l

Ring C is designed to be passed over the hook or goose-neck on the end of a draft-pole ot' vehicles; or, when the whiftletree is used as a single-tree, as may readily be done, it will be engaged with a clevis on the end ot' a plowbeam. In this latter case hooks D will be used to engage the cockeyes on the ends of the traces..

Rods B being made of a single piece of metal, and being strongly secured both to ring` G and to the whitlletree, will add greatly to the strength ofthe apparatus. It will also be inuch lighter, and the disagreeable rattling ot' the chains in going down hill entirely done away with.

W hat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is; v l. The rods B, connected to the clevis-ring C by means ot' eyes 1),-and the draft-hooks D, introduced `between the lapped ends of rods B and spreader A, and conined in place by a bolt passing through registering-eyes in the rods, the spreader,'and the draft-hooks, substantially as specified.

2. The draft-hooks D, pivoted between the I rabbeted ends ot' the spreader A and rods B, substantially. as specified.

3. vThe whi'liletree. consisting ofthe metallic spreader A, the independent connecting-rods B, the ring C, and the draft-hooks D, pivoted between the rabbeted'ends of the spreader and rods, substantially as specied.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence 0t"twowitnesses.v

MATHIAS BOLANZ. Witnesses:

lt. S. WooDY,

Scorri? CARTER.

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